CHAPTER THREE 



The Whales 

 Along the Shore 



so JONATHAN worked at the inn and learned his various 

 tasks with a rapidity that both amazed and pleased Mr. 

 Mather and his good wife. They were more than ever 

 amazed to find that Jonathan could read and write, a thing 

 so rare among the boys in the colonies. His father had 

 been a notary and had educated his only son as well as 

 his means had permitted. It had been in the capacity of 



